Our millennial daughter is a new resident of Portland. She loves her adopted state of Oregon and is exploring the Rose City as thoroughly as a Labrador Retriever on the trail of a bird scent. When she's not out hiking alongside fern covered trails and cascading waterfalls, she's discovering new restaurants and neighborhoods. On a [...]

Half way up a hill, on the north side of the Dundee Hills sits Le Puy, a wine valley inn. This eco-inn, is a fusion of China meets France in Willamette Valley wine country. China, in the sense that the guest rooms are inspired by Feng Shui, and France, as the inn keepers were inspired [...]

Like a fine wine, Valley River Inn is aging gracefully. I fondly recall celebrating my graduation from the University of Oregon at the Inn's restaurant Sweetwaters on the River back in the 1980's. Afterall, this was the restaurant you dined at with your parents when they were paying for dinner during a visit to Eugene. [...]